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I A. F. CARLSON CUE Filed March 29} 1920 INVENTOR. ARTHUR F. CARLSON ATTORNEY Patented Jan. 2 9, 1924.

UNHTED STATES ARTHUR F. GARLSON, OF MINNEAPOLIS, IKINNESOTA,

ASSIGNOB/ TO THE BRUNSXVICK- BALKE-COLLENDER COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF DELA- WARE.

Application filed March 29, 1920.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR F. CARLSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin 5 and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cues, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to pool and billiard cues, and the object is to provide an efiicient, practical and easily constructed and applied bumper for the butt end thereof, for the purpose of preventing said one butt from becoming chipped and broken when dropped upon a hard floor as is customarily done when playing such games.

The invention is embodied in a construction which is clearly shown in the accompanying drawing, in which;

Fig. 1 is a vertical elevation of a well known form of cue, with the middle portion broken away and with my improved quickly detachable bumper applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a diametrical sectional view of the cue butt as shown in Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawing by reference letters, A designates a cue having the usual hand grip B and a ti C. A bushing D having gripping burrs E is forced into a CUE.

Serial No. 369,771.

similarly sized aperture in the end of the cue butt where it is permanently secured. The cue bumper F is made of any suit-ably resilient material, but preferabl of rubber, and is provided with a shank adapted to fit tightly and be frictionally secured in the bushing D.

It is obvious in this construction that when the bumper F becomes worn or broken it can be quickly replaced by pulling it out and inserting a new one.

Having now therefore fully shown and described my invention, what I claim to be new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is: i

A billiard one having asocket in its butt end, a hollow bushing tightly forced into said socket and having a plurality of burrs 4 on its exterior surface to engage the wall of said socket for permanently securing the bushing therein, and a resilient bumper having a shank tightly fitted in said bushing and having a head formed integrally with the shank and engaging the end of the cue butt.

In testimony'whereof I afiix my signature.

ARTHUR F. CARLSON. 

